Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security. . . and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.
I see less and less. . . I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up. . . I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.
